Traumatic Memory Reflection

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In this second session with the volunteer client, I struggled more than in the first tape to implement trauma interventions because she was role playing instead of speaking about a personal experience. It was particularly difficult to walk her through the traumatic memory, and help her remember the thoughts about herself she had in those moments, as well as the emotions she was experiencing as she seemed to struggle somewhat with picturing how the real victim might have felt about herself in those moments. I found myself feeling anxious and frustrated as I was hoping she will give me a little information to work with while discussing the memory we chose to reconstruct during this session.
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In these moments, I wanted to address her thoughts and self-perceptions to assess for irrational and destructive beliefs about herself in order to eventually help her see herself differently. In these moments, I was using encouragers to encourage her to continue talking and I normalized her avoidance (minute 20:45) as self-protection. As she was talking about making stupid choices, I heard myself saying “okay” a few times. I should have used different encouragers here, because in some of the places I had said “okay” it could be perceived that I am agreeing with her comments and that was not my intention in the moment. I notice that I often say “okay,” as someone is finishing up talking before I formulate my response. In those moments, I was starting to look an opportunity to start normalizing that as a teenager, while I do not condone her actions of getting drunk and high and those were indeed poor choices, what she was doing was not out of the ordinary, and it absolutely did not mean that someone was justified in taking advantage of her. Then, around minute 26:19, I asked whether it was from others that she heard that she made stupid choices, with the intention of addressing some the damaging responses that the victim often is exposed to following abuse, which the victim usually ends up internalizing and believing these messages. At minute 27:28, I should have stayed with what she said about how it was easier for others to focus on what she “did wrong,” and address that what she needed in those moments was just the opposite, for people to be on her side, and give her a

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